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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 14, 2016

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Ari Harow, former chief of staff of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a Likud meeting in the Israeli parliament, November 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former Netanyahu chief of staff grilled on suspicions against PM

Ari Harow, a longtime adviser and campaign manager for the PM and Likud, detained by police upon landing at Ben Gurion

Visitors look at tanks left behind in Lebanon by Israeli forces as they visit the Hezbollah-run 'Tourist Landmark of the Resistance' war museum in Mlita (aka Mleeta) in southern Lebanon on July 12, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT)

Analysis

10 years after the Second Lebanon War, Israel isn’t in Hezbollah’s sights

By Avi Issacharoff

Though the Syrian inferno has hardened the Shiite militia into a powerful army, its future is cloudy, and it can ill afford another round of hostilities with the IDF just now

Newly appointed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson addresses staff inside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London on July 14, 2016. AFP/POOL/Andrew Matthews)

Live updates (closed)

Working with UK’s Johnson same as working with Israeli envoy — White House

By Joshua Davidovich

Spokesman compares appointment of outspoken gaffe-prone new British foreign secretary to posting of Obama critic Ron Dermer to Washington, saying ‘special relationship transcends personalities’

The new leader of the Conservative Party Theresa May, left, is greeted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace on July 13, 2016 where the queen invited the former home secretary to become prime minister and form a new government. (AFP/ POOL / Dominic Lipinski)

Queen confirms May as new British PM after Cameron steps down

By AFP

New leader calls for unity, hints she will seek to heal fractures stemming from Brexit vote that sparked shakeup; Netanyahu sends congratulations, thanks outgoing leader

Like his boss, new UK FM Boris Johnson is an Israel backer

By ToI Staff and AFP

Boris Johnson appointed Britain’s foreign minister

By AFP

Netanyahu welcomes new British prime minister

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rabbi Aaron Panken, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (left) and Tad Taube, founder and chairman of Taube Philanthropies, celebrate the groundbreaking at the newly named Taube Family Campus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 29, 2016. (Avi Hayun)

For US philanthropist, keeping Israelis Jewish means boosting Reform Jewry

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

His $15 million donation to upgrade the Reform Movement’s flagship campus in Jerusalem may look like a statement, but Tad Taube says he’s not out to spark a religious war

Shlomit Metz-Poolat

Orthodox and gay: Agonizing isolation

Once an active, dedicated congregant, she was severed from the life of her community; a fate she compares to death

Trump unleashes the one-state option

The candidate has given Greater Israel loyalists the credibility to make their case to a far wider public

A Jewish dream of justice

Calling on white American Jews to join with people of color to work for racial justice and police accountability

I’m sorry for sharing Israel slur

He regrets sharing an offensive Facebook post; as chief of London’s diverse Brent Borough, he promises to do better

Hundreds of people attend the annual gay pride parade in the southern city of Ashdod on June 17, 2016. (Flash90)

Beersheba pride parade called off after court orders march rerouted

By Tamar Pileggi

Justices uphold police recommendation to detour from city’s main street over ‘credible’ threats of violence

Shira Banki, in a picture dated November 16, 2013, taken from her Facebook page.

Parents of slain teen Banki urge public to attend Jerusalem pride march

By JTA

Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim (left), nominated to become IDF chief rabbi, sits next to his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Rafi Peretz, on April 21, 2016 (Diana Khananashvili/Defense Ministry)

Amid protests, IDF chief sticks with controversial top rabbi pick

By Raoul Wootliff

Lawmakers feud over nomination of Eyal Karim after his contentious statements come to light seeming to condone rape during wartime, oppose drafting of women

Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, seen here when still in office, heads a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Former Palestinian PM draws fire at home for new reconciliation plan

By Avi Issacharoff

Salam Fayyad unveils blueprint for unity and statehood, is immediately castigated by Abbas allies

Raed Masalmeh, 36, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on December 2, 2015 (Flash90)

Palestinian convicted of double stabbing murder in Tel Aviv

Altering not guilty plea, Raed Masalmeh admits to killing 2 Israelis in an office building synagogue in November

Aerial view of resort on the Micronesian island of Kosrae. (Courtesy)

Israelis lead race as Micronesian tourism paradise is raffled off, at $49 a ticket

By Yaakov Schwartz

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein vowing to rebuild after a fire at Kehilath Jeshurun caused major damage to his New York synagogue, July 11, 2011. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images/via JTA)

Top rabbinical court nixes conversions by Ivanka Trump’s rabbi

Calling credentials of Haskel Lookstein into question, leading Israeli panel forces US immigrant to undergo additional ritual to get married

Vehicles torched by suspected Jewish terrorists in the northern Arab village of Yafia on June 10, 2016. (Israel Police)

3 Jewish teens busted for anti-Arab vandalism in Galilee

Suspects confess to torching, vandalizing cars in retaliation for Sarona Market attack in which 4 were killed

Tax cut plan would see rates slashed for high tech companies

By Shoshanna Solomon

Move is part of effort to lure multinationals to register their intellectual property in Israel

Buddy Guy opened the third Tel Aviv Blues Festival on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at the Caesarea Amphitheater. (Miriam Nahum/Times of Israel)

Concert review

Feeling the love, Buddy Guy gets down and dirty in Caesarea

By Yaakov Schwartz

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Once of more than a dozen small UAVs discovered by border officials was they were being smuggled into the Gaza Strip, July 13, 2016. (Defense Ministry)

Trove of gadgets seized at Gaza border

By Stuart Winer

The Western Galilee (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Octogenarian couple killed in northern crash

A woman points her smartphone at the Brandenburg Gate as she plays the Pokemon Go mobile game in Berlin on July 13, 2016. (AFP/ dpa / Sophia Kembowski)

Auschwitz asks ‘Pokemon Go’ to keep monsters out of death camp

The windows of Quicken Loans Arena are decorated for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 11, 2016. (Angelo Merendino/Getty Images/AFP

ADL ‘disappointed’ by Republican opposition to two-state solution

By Stuart Winer

Moshe Katsav (left) leaving prison for his first home visit, May 2012. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav agrees to rehab in early release bid

Watching soldiers at an army ceremony at the Western Wall (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash 90 )

Hebrew media reviewThursday the rabbi saved his job

By Raoul Wootliff

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